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...trouble to worry about. His new book, Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt, had caused considerable pain to the person of Lewis R. Linet. Said Philadelphia Lawyer Linet, suing for $3.50 worth of fraudulence: "I bought the book thinking it was nonfiction. [It] is a hoax upon the plaintiff and the reading public...
Next day angry, pride-wounded Skipper Jockie sued Hotel Proprietor Meyer for $800 damages. Magistrate Willem van Lingen ordered a payment of $200-plus-costs to the plaintiff...
That 87-year-old Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords, had committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan...
...days witnesses for Dempsey paraded across the stand, then Hannah had a nervous collapse, got a four-day adjournment. Said Dempsey's attorney: "You haven't heard anything yet." Defense counsel started looking for a witness of their own, one "Yvette," who had told some tales about Plaintiff Dempsey and then vanished. Promptly Yvette's attorney turned up to swear that she had been talking through...
...plaintiff Betty Hansen, in the custody of juvenile authorities, said nothing. Said Mother Anna Hansen in Lincoln, Neb,, awaiting her daughter's return: "Oh, well, nobody got hurt...